Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Tuesday January 5th, 2010

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War on the Middle Class:

USA Today: IRS to Be Deployed to Force Americans to Buy Health Care

Financial Times: Americas' Public Pensions Face $2,000 Billion Deficit

ABC: Upcoming Bailouts Include California, Citi, Fannie, Freddie, FHA

MyBudget360: Wealth Has Evaporated for the Majority over Ten Years

Newsweek: Credit Crunch Means Loans for Small Business All But Gone

Wall Street Journal: Personal Bankruptcy Filings Soar 33% in Past Year

Collapse of U.S. Cities, States:

City Wire: "States borrowed $26 billion to fund unemployment in 2009"

Bloomberg: Silicon Valley Bloodbath Leaves Entire Buildings Emptied

Boston Globe: State Budget Shortfalls Likely Over $180 Billion in 2010

Newsweek: Hawaii's School Cuts Symbolize Coming Trouble for States

Newsweek: What New York City Must Do In Order to Stave off Collapse

Wall Street Journal: Budget Deficits Mean Huge Cuts for Public Transit

Collapse of Britain:

UK Telegraph: Government Warns Britain Needs to Produce More Food

UK Telegrpah: Frozen Britain on Verge of Running Out of Natural Gas

Financial Times: Shipbuilding Industry Set for a Rash of Insolvencies

Financial Collapse:

Bloomberg: Treasuries Post Worst Performance Among Sovereign Debt

Mike Whitney: Fed is Using Middle Class Money to Prop Up Big Banks

Washington's Blog: Is the U.S. Government Flat Out Buying Stocks?

Charles Hugh Smith: Nation's Devolution from Quality to Convenience

UK Telegraph: The Economic Experts Who Stopped Making Any Sense

Real Estate Collapse:

Business Week: Think Our Housing Bubble Was Bad? China's is Worse

Delaware Online: Those Who Tapped Home Equity Getting Hammered

Gold, Silver, Oil, Metals:

London Times: World's Central Bankers Buying Up Gold Bullion Supplies

ITulip: Primary Lesson of the Last 10 Years is the Gold Bugs Were Right

CNBC: Gold May Hit $1375 an Ounce as Dollar Continues Its Collapse

Most Important Articles from Yesterday:

Jim Kunstler: "Time to start thinking what your new social role will be"

Mike Ruppert: "The world is falling apart, you better start running . . ."

TheNews.com: "Virtually all of Pakistan's refineries at or near default"

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Financial Times: "$2,700 billion has simply vanished into thin air . . ."

Fortune: "Your share of the U.S. debt load will be over $155,000 . . . "

Minyanville: Why Gold Prices Could Triple (to Over $3,000) from Here

Preparation and Relocaliation:

Survival Blog: More About Post Collapse Anesthetic Medicine Options

NY Times: Black Markest Find a Home in the Web’s Back Alleys (Cuba)

UK Telegraph: 5 Year Olds to be Given Compulsory Lessons on Savings

L.A. Times: Amid Financial Collapse, Ron Paul's Ideas No Longer Fringe

Are you prepared for civil unrest, martial law, and the day the trucks stop rolling to the grocery store?

















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